Thanks to My Mother - Softcover

Rabinovici, Schoschana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141305967 ISBN 13: 9780141305967

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2000

Synopsis

Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the next few years, she endured starvation, brutality, and forced labor in three concentration camps. With courage and ingenuity, Susie's mother helped her to survive--by disguising her as an adult to fool the camp guards, finding food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. This harrowing memoir portrays the best and worst of humanity in heartbreaking scenes you will never forget.

Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award
An ALA Notable Book
An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies

About this title

About the Authors

Schoschana emigrated to Israel in 1950 and lives there and in Vienna with her family.

James Skofield has written several picture books as well as the I Can Read Books Detective Dinosaur and Detective Dinosaur Lost and Found. He lives in Walpole, NH.

Reinhardt Jung was born in Germany in 1949 and worked with an international children's organization before becoming head of children's broadcasting in Stuttgart, Germany. He died in 1999.

"From the Hardcover edition.

Anthea Bell has worked as a translator for many years. Her translations from German include modern and classic fiction by authors such as E. T. A. Hoffmann and Kafka, as well as work by Stefan Zweig.

From the Back Cover

HER MOTHER'S COURAGE KEPT HER ALIVE.

Susie Weksler was only eight in 1941 when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Soon her family would face hunger and fear in the Jewish ghetto -- but worse was to come. Through three concentration camps and a winter "death march", Susie survived forced labor, starvation, brutality, and the terrifying "selections". With courage and ingenuity, Susie's mother helped her to survive the Holocaust -- by hiding her, disguising her as an adult to fool the camp guards, finding food to add to their scarce rations, and giving Susie the will to endure. Susie's harrowing story portrays the best and worst of humanity in heartbreaking scenes that you will never forget.

Reviews

PW called this Holocaust memoir "particularly grim. The work owes much of its force to the author's unusually detailed powers of memory." Ages 12-up.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141305967
• ISBN 13: 9780141305967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246